Framework

Toyota Production System: four pillars

The question it answers

When a plant has high stock, recurring defects and uneven output, which pillars should an operations manager build on to run production steadily with little waste?

Origin
Slack et al. (2022) ch. 16
Diagram type
Hub diagram
Level of analysis
Firm
Topics
Supply chain & operations
Delivery lorry pulling a chain of linked glass boxes, icon for supply chain

Diagram

Toyota Production System: four pillars

TPS
Just-in-time (pull)
Jidoka (stop at defects)
Eliminate the seven wastes
Level scheduling

Sources

References

Listed A–Z by author surname, Harvard style. A source with a DOI links to https://doi.org/…; one without links to its page or says plainly that it has no DOI.

  1. Slack, N., Brandon-Jones, A. and Burgess, N. (2022) Operations Management (10th edn). Harlow: Pearson.No DOISource page